Meyer suspends Sprinkle pending case outcome

By TIM MAY

Ohio State reserve defensive end Tracy Sprinkle, facing charges of drug possession and failure to disperse after an incident at a bar in the Lorain, Ohio, area early Saturday morning, this morning was suspended from the team by coach Urban Meyer, according to an OSU spokesman.

“His future with the team will be determined following the completion of this case,” spokesman Jerry Emig said, paraphrasing Meyer who is on vacation.

Sprinkle, 19, a redshirt-freshman, is from Elyria, near Lorain. He was arrested between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday, a Lorain city jail official said, and was still being held as of late last night.

The move to suspend him from the team was not made until this morning by Meyer, but it was expected. Meyer continually stresses to his players to “walk away” from trouble, and he suspended running back Carlos Hyde for the first three games last season and Bradley Roby from the 2013 season opener after late-July incidents in bars, though neither ultimately was charged.